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Check out Count to ten (can't remember the label) and If you go, which is on Sue. I had a whole box (25) copies of You better go on Columbia in the mid 80s............ Tony

rocksteady rockabilly/rockin' blues hillbilly boogie amongst others

I know these blokes and I wouldn't trust them with a cheese sandwich let alone something serious like vinyl. See Aldershot Town News 12-9-05 "Local Record Dealers in Sham Self-Help Scam Shock" if you want proof.

Val Shively's was always an interesting place to visit - quite amusing if you caught him at the right time but otherwise... though he did buy me and M Ritson a Hoagy for lunch way back in ''78 Tony

you don't get called smart arse at all!

Here's my twopenny worth Demures Raining Teardrops Lornettes His way with the girls Tony

Hello Russ - no info, just a thought do we really need it? We do ok. It'll probably have the same angle as This England -it's rough oop north and the only escape from the tedium of t' tripe mill is via gear, vinyl and 'niters. Not that I'm cynical or anything. Tony

I remember doing "the block" when I were a nipper tony

You may like to know that the last of the Nicholas Bros, Feyard? died this week aged 90ish

It could have evolved from imitating the sort of steps that some of the soul groups who visited the UK in the 60s did on stage, as dance routines were the norm for these groups. The "northern dance" has evolved over the years, the way we danced at the Torch was a lot more simple than the way we dance now. (apart from the acrobatics which are less common now, thank gawd!) with less fancy footwork. It's really a development of stepping side to side on the beat, the way you might do when not actually dancing, but just sort of swaying. Someone once told me that the style came from seeing a dance that Alvin Cash and the Crawlers did on stage whilst on a visit to the UK. The backdrops and the like were certainly part of the US soul group' repertoire, I've seen film of the Flamingoes backdropping and my mate Terry said that when he saw Philip Mitchell in the early 70s he did a few of them. Tony

Very sad news, Midnight Hour on Black Atlantic was the first soul record I ever bought. I heard the news at 4am on the BBC World service and had to play a couple of his records before I went back to bed. Got his autograph somewhere from when he played the Pontiac Club in Putney in 196?

Saw the Stax Volt tour with Otis at Hammersmith Odeon - wot a nite! Glad someone remembered Chuck Jackson at Yarmouth silver suit and all! He was brilliant, and while we're at Yarmouth who saw the Four Tops when they played there (1980?), full orchestra, the works. Clay Hammond at Utrecht A++ Dells A++++ Would love to see Jerry Butler, but apparently he doesn't like flying, lets have a whip round and book him on the QE2 Tony

Just thought I'd say that mine's blue as well. Not sure what colour the label is though!

Thanks Pete Tony

I was listening to the great Peter Young on Smoooove FM last Saturday and he played D.Bank's Our love is in the pocket, but it was a different mix to the one we usually hear. Does anybody know anything about it? Ta! Tony

- the drumming at the end of Timi Yuro's It'll never be over for me, and the drum intro to Edward Hamilton's I'm gonna love you - brilliant Tone

What language was he speaking?

Bloody hell, i'm tingling all over what brilliant memories, the clapping sounds like a well drilled army unit. Thanks to all for the clips. Anyone got any of this stuff on cd? tone

WOT A TUNE!1

levi stubbs david ruffin otis redding

I've always been a dancer, its part of the thrills of young.........well, you know. In the early days of Yate I used to manage to hop off the stage and have a dance to my own tunes (well, numbers were a bit on the low side and Kojak gave me a bonus! LOL). Even today, I couldn't imagine djing and not having a dance during someone else's spot, its not natural..... Tony

I reckon that over the Christmas/New Year period is a good time to play a few formerly popular, but now deeply uncool tunes - lighten up - you could always dance ironically if it makes you feel better. Happy Noo Year Tony

Don Downing's Dream World is pretty Whoo hooish and you can't ask for more with Woo Hoo by the Rockateens

I thought it was an interesting interpretation, trouble is you can't beat David Ruffin singing it and both the Temptations and/or Otis's versions are for most soul fans in the blood so to speak. Tony